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 Topic 9 (session A) - Speech Presentation > Thought presentation > Task B
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Thought presentation

Task B - The categories of thought presentation

Although in thought presentation the basic categories are the same as for speech presentation, the effects of the categories are sometimes different for thought, compared with speech, as we have seen in Task A. So we will label the thought presentation categories separately, but parallel to the speech presentation categories, as follows:

Speech presentation

Direct speech (DS)

Free indirect speech (FIS)

Indirect speech (IS)

Narrators representation of speech act (NRSA)

Narrators representation of voice (NV)

Thought presentation

Direct thought (DT)

Free indirect thought (FIT)

Indirect thought (IT)

Narrators representation of thought act (NRTA)

Narrators representation of thought (NT)

Below are five instances of thought presentation. Where do you think is the appropriate place for each of the following sentences on the scale below? Compare your answers with ours.

  • 'What will I do for the rest of my bloody life?' she asked herself
  • She asked herself what she would do for the rest of her life.
  • She thought for a long time
  • She carefully considered her future
  • What would she do for the rest of her bloody life?

The scale

'Know most detail about what 'she' thought'
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'Know least detail about what 'she' thought'

Our answers

 

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